MAMEWorld Forums - Programming - Re: I need to put roms name, date, genre, company database sql

> > I need to put roms name, date, genre, company database sql
> > Can I somehow or where they find it.
> > if not forgiveness but did not understand English
> >
> > question the source code and mame mame plus but very little and I could not find
> the
> > genre
> >
> >
> > if not forgiveness but did not understand English
>
> If I understand what you are asking, you can obtain all the information in MAME by
> issuing this command in a command box:
>
> MAME -listxml > mamexml.txt
>
> The output file, mamexml.txt, will contain all data your desire. Beyond that, you are
> on your own to make an application that will parse the data contained in that.

it won't contain genre etc. because mame doesn't store that kind of information.

I do wonder about the reasons behind asking this anyway, we already have MAWS which contains more information than anybody could ever need anyway.